Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy
Major-General Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy
Goldsworthy was born in
Goldsworthy was elected Member of Parliament for Hammersmith in the 1885 general election and held the seat until the 1900 general election.[3]
In March 1886 Goldsworthy presented a petition to Parliament asking to extend the voting franchise to women.[4]
He is credited with a donation of £105 to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in 1892.
In 1890, the 11,888 square feet (1,104.4 m2) Yaldham Manor, Kent was advertised in The Times and sold to Goldsworthy. He bred hunters and built the stables and carriage shed. Arthur Nye Peckham, who visited Yaldham in 1911 noted the general had "re-opened the great hall, which had been cut into four rooms".[5]
References
- ^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
- ^ West London Observer,13 August 1897, page 5
- ^ Leigh Rayment[usurped]
- ^ West London Observer, 6 March 1886, page 5
- ^ Yaldham Manor history
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